Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!olivea!mintaka!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!mcsun!cernvax!chx400!urz.unibas.ch!hofer From: hofer@urz.unibas.ch (Remo Hofer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: MSDOS formater Message-ID: <1991Jan25.101744.1329@urz.unibas.ch> Date: 25 Jan 91 09:17:44 GMT References: <1991Jan24.101341.1327@urz.unibas.ch> Organization: University of Basel, Switzerland Lines: 23 In article <1991Jan24.101341.1327@urz.unibas.ch>, hofer@urz.unibas.ch (Remo Hofer) writes: > Is there a PD diskformater around, which produces real MSDOS disk, except > that it puts in a serial number? I mean it should write a MSDOS bootsector > (except serial number), a compatible media byte, the FAT and the root > directory should have the same length and it should write the same number of > FATs as on MSDOS disks. Is there such a beast around? I've got some answers, but none of them did answer my question. So I have to clarify myself. I know that there are tons of utilities, that write MSDOS kompatible bootsectors. One of them is the formater of TOS 1.4. But I look for a formater that also writes all the other stuff ecaxtly like MSDOS does in the standard way. So that after formating nobody can see, if it was formated on a MSDOS PC (say MSDOS 3.2) or on the ST. The use would be, that no utility that claims to read/write MSDOS disk would deny to handle such a disk. The utility could be on any machine (Mac, SUN,...). There are such utilitie, that only partaly handle the MSDOS bootsector parameters. One is GEMDOS another is MSDOS itself. Remo -- RFC822: X.400: S=hofer;OU=urz;O=unibas;P=SWITCH;A=ARCOM;C=CH